What is missing in your life that this adamance fills? That's the one part of this I'll admit to finding fascinating.
Chinese philosophy demands that you see thing from both the Ying point of view as well as the Yang point of view.
What is missing in your life that you do consider chess a sport?
What is missing in your life that you don't consider chess a sport?
Lol I like that response! Well said.
I don't think so. He seems to know nothing about Chinese philosophy, because he's focussing on the negative. It's assumptive (that everything is seen from the point of view that chess is a sport) and there's also no synthesis. Chinese philosophy would take a thesis (that chess is not or is a sport), find the antithesis and then look for a synthesis, a little along the lines of Hegelian ideas but predating them by about 3000 years. The moving lines in the hexagrams indicate change, not fixedness. He's only looking for fixed principles.
It has been years since I've 'heard' someone mentioning Hegelian dialectic. Long_Quach writing style is more in line with Buddhist Koan. I would give him the benefit of the doubt that he was trying to succinctly counter the argument of QuarteredFOV who fell prey to the ad hominem fallacy.
One of these days I'll delve more into Chinese Philosophy. The Great Courses has wonderful educational lectures on eastern and western philosophies. There is also a lecture on chess by IM Silman.
Bodies like the IOC have vested interests in that there would be financial incentives to have chess recognised as a sport. Therefore their "opinion" isn't an honest opinion because they stand to gain if it's accepted. It being accepted might well lead to things we don't like. It would hardly benefit ordinary chess players and might well make the game more expensive to indulge in, competitively. It would be another gravy train with people trying to make money out of us. We therefore dont wish it to be recognised as a sport. That's disregarding the ridiculousness.
I'm not going to say "who is 'we'" again but seriously who is 'we'.
How would chess being recognised as a sport make the game more expensive to indulge in? That is completely false, and who is making money off us? Your points are increasinly becoming devoid of facts and logic and you are simply going into a heedless tangent.
Chess being virtually recognized as being a sport will in fact bring in more sponsors to the players who are struggling financially to dedicate their life to chess full-time.
"That's disregarding the ridiculouslness".... what are you talking about in general??
Clearly you are incapable of forming a discussion without lies and deciet hidden under your large sprinkle of prattle
I would be talking for people who think like me. They do exist. I will tell you rather strongly that I don't generally lie when I make posts here. Perhaps you don't understand me. I definitely think you have a problem and I didn't like to point it out previously. I sort of wanted to give you a chance. Maybe you were having an off day, I thought.
I thought I made it clear that I'm not interested in people who play chess for a living. That's their choice. Very often they try to win prizes in tournaments, give chess lessons, maybe write books or make videos. I'm not interested in them and see no reason why they should be supported by the artificial provision of prize money. I don't even like that kind of thinking. If a chess player finds himself capable of supporting himself and a family by means of chess then that's great.
However, artificially funding people to lead what are basically going to be unproductive lives requires money and that money has to come from somewhere. That somewhere is you and me and I would tend to resist very strongly what you propose. If you think I'm lying or deceitful, that would appear to be your problem. I don't particularly like being "spoken" to the way you have spoken to me. Is that clear?
Stop waffling brother
You know where the money comes from to fund these multi-million dollar tournaments? It's definetely not from us.... It's from sponsors.
Anyone with half a brain would know that. I think you are either trolling or a very young child to make arguements that are not backed up by anything whatsoever.
I have analysed your previous posts and have concluded that you are only looking for attention,
Tóg go bog é
Are you mentally ill, brother?
Why are you shying away off what you wrote yourself?
How is chess being recognized as a sport by everyone going to make our chess experience more expensive?